On Friday. My 75th birthday. Rev Meg was wonderful. In and out. Two witnesses allowed. “Flower people” later with champagne. Chocolate cake.
With three reasons, our dining table is half-full of flowers. 🙂
We got married.
Category: Family
Charlie Henry Workman (1897-1976) ~ The Unspoken
Charlie Henry Workman (1897-1976) ~ The Unspoken is a memoir that reports on the circumstances of the Charlie Henry Workman’s immigration to Canada as an orphan in the British “home children” program of the early twentieth century. Not well historicized and for many years “unspoken”, the practice of sending orphans to Canada once served as a source for child labour for settler farmers. Louann combines her accounts with two poems which evocatively honour his story and life.
Franci Louann describes and reads from The Unspoken in THIS VIDEO that was recorded at a Reading the Migration Library event during Art Book Month, on October 8, 2020.
Reading the Migration Library
Here is my Dad’s story. He was a British Home Child. There are two short poems “wrapped up” within the essay chapbook. (Chapbook essay?) Hope you can make the time (& that this link will work on my blog). Cheers.
Click to access louann_theunspoken_view.pdf
Franci Louann 